On Mon, Sep 29, Scott Newton wrote:
If the problem is that you are seeing messages to the effect that "/dev/dsp could not be found" then run alsaconf as root. I suffered thru this recently and eventually found that simply running alasconf solved the problem.
A couple of other things to check. Make sure amarok isn't running (alsaconf kills amarok and kmix when it does the equivalent of /etc/init.d/sound restart). And I've found that sometimes removing the USB configuration in the VMWare seesion makes the sound work for XP 32 bit.
No, I don't have any "/dev/dsp could not be found" message. Of course, If I've got xmms or similar running when I launch vmware, I get a message to the effect that it cannot be opened, so I make sure that I shut off such apps first, and check with $ sudo lsof /dev/dsp Sound works just fine on the host SuSE system, so I'm not sure what good running alsaconf would do. I've tried restarting /etc/init.d/alsasound - to no good effect for vmware. Curious point: when vmware starts "happily", claiming that it has connected to /dev/dsp without complaint, Windows itself (control panel) doesn't think there is any audio device. Any further suggestions? Thanks. Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared. - David Brooks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org